mitch blog

A little more than a week ago we got a solid 10 to 12 foot swell at playa zicatela, puerto escondido, mexico. just coming over from austria to visit our friends living close to puerto all of a sudden the game was on to tow into some solid waves.

During the night everybody woke up by the thunders produced by the fresh swell hitting the sandbar at the nearby beach. We got up in the dark to go to Zicatela and to get out there with the first light to play and tow into the biggest waves i have ridden so far. Watching the others towing and surfing and getting the first few rides myself it all started to feel so comfortable and fun! With the jetski everything feels pretty easy and safe. You catch the wave way early and having the straps on the board makes it feel like snowboarding down a steep face. At the end of the wave or if you pull out over the shoulder the jetski most of the time is right there to get you. The biggest difference though is that the face is moving and changing the shape, what a trip!

When i got towed into my most intense wave, a pretty big righthander (Stan called it a 15foot face, chris a 20foot face) i was doing big turns down the face. At the bottom i saw a spot up on the lip where i planed to do my next turn, up there i was looking down realizing that what was a nice big hill before turned into a steep drop back to the bottom, whoow, what a feeling!!

Towin surfing feels like heliboarding

red flag means ready for tow in

its a lot like snowboarding, only this time its moving water instead of snow

I took a picture of this guy getting a nice righthander